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To: shove_it

How about this 1999 play by yanks el duque

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=20187559&c_id=mlb


3 posted on 09/30/2012 6:32:24 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

LOL! You topped it with that one.


5 posted on 09/30/2012 6:36:46 AM PDT by shove_it (DNC = perpetual emotion machine)
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To: Vaquero

Very cool!


6 posted on 09/30/2012 6:36:59 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Vaquero

How bout the invisible bat grand slam yesterday.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/09/29/nationals-michael-morse-hits-invisible-home-run/1603627/


9 posted on 09/30/2012 6:48:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Vaquero
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/runner_7.jsp

7.05
Each runner including the batter-runner may, without liability to be put out, advance --

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(b) Three bases, if a fielder deliberately touches a fair ball with his cap, mask or any part of his uniform detached from its proper place on his person. The ball is in play and the batter may advance to home base at his peril;
(c) Three bases, if a fielder deliberately throws his glove at and touches a fair ball. The ball is in play and the batter may advance to home base at his peril.
(d) Two bases, if a fielder deliberately touches a thrown ball with his cap, mask or any part of his uniform detached from its proper place on his person. The ball is in play;
(e) Two bases, if a fielder deliberately throws his glove at and touches a thrown ball. The ball is in play;
Comment: Under (c-e) this penalty shall not be invoked against a fielder whose glove is carried off his hand by the force of a batted or thrown ball, or when his glove flies off his hand as he makes an obvious effort to make a legitimate catch.

Under these rules it isn't at all clear to me if a fielder can throw his glove containing the ball to another fielder to effect an out. El Duque was lucky the ball didn't come out of the glove, btw. Still an interesting play.
10 posted on 09/30/2012 6:49:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Kafka in the throes of a demonic possession could not have come up with the "tuck rule".)
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To: Vaquero
I still like this one:

Randy Johnson hits bird

18 posted on 09/30/2012 8:22:20 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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